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nrpe: code execution

Package(s):NRPE CVE #(s):CVE-2013-1362
Created:April 4, 2013 Updated:April 5, 2013
Description:

From the openSUSE advisory:

NRPE (the Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor) allows the passing of $() to plugins/scripts which, if run under bash, will execute that shell command under a subprocess and pass the output as a parameter to the called script. Using this, it is possible to get called scripts, such as check_http, to execute arbitrary commands under the uid that NRPE/nagios is running as (typically, 'nagios').

With this update NRPE will deny remote requests containing a bash command substitution.

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0621-1 2013-04-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0624-1 2013-04-04

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